Selkup language
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Selkup | |
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чу́мэл шэ, тюйкуй келл, шё̄шӄуй шэ̄, сӱ̄ссыӷӯй сэ̄, шöйӄумый эты | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
Ethnicity | Selkup people |
Native speakers | 1,600 (2020 census)[1] |
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Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | sel |
ISO 639-3 | sel |
Glottolog | selk1253 |
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Selkup is the group of
Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian селькуп, based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, шӧльӄумыт әты (šöľqumyt əty lit. 'forest-man language'). Different dialects
use different names.
Selkup is fractured in an extensive
.Grammar
Southern Selkup
Noun
Case name | Ending | Meaning | Example | Meaning of the example | |
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Nominative case | ∅ | subject | маҗь | forest (as a subject) | |
Accusative case | -п, -м (rare) | direct object | ма́җеп | forest (as an object) | |
Genitive case
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-т, -н (rare) | possession | ма́җет | of a forest | |
Dative case | animate | -н | indirect object (animate) | ӄун, ӄумн | to the person |
inanimate | -нд | indirect object (inanimate) | маҗӧ́нд | to the forest | |
Inessive case | animate | -нан | the X has | ӄу́нан | the person has |
inanimate | -ӷэт/-ӄэт | in | маҗӧ́ӷэт | in the forest | |
Elative case | -эутэ/-утэ | out of, from, along | маҗӧ́утэ | out of the forest | |
Instrumental-comitative case | -ӽе/-хе, -э́ (with nouns denoting means of transport, always stressed) | with | маҗьӽе́ | with the forest | |
Abessive case | -галк/-калк | without | маҗьга́лк | without the forest | |
Translative case | -тӄо | into | маҗетӄо́ | [turn] into a forest | |
Exessive case[a] | animate | -ндо/-эндо | from | ку́ндо | from the person |
inanimate | -ӷэндо/-ӄэндо | from | маҗӧ́ӷэндо | from the forest |
- ^ Almost out of use[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 6. Население по родному языку" [Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 6. population according to native language.]. rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- PMID 35675367.
- ^ Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
- ISBN 978-5-6046304-5-7.
Works cited
- ISBN 0-415-08198-X.